{"id":30522,"date":"2026-04-01T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30522"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:18:50","slug":"somalian-national-army-successfully-taken-control-of-baidoa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/somalian-national-army-successfully-taken-control-of-baidoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalian National Army successfully taken control of Baidoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Somalian National Army has successfully taken control of Baidoa, the strategic administrative capital of Southwest State.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>This follows weeks of escalating tension between the federal government in Mogadishu and regional authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The military move into Baidoa follows a period of &#8220;severed ties&#8221; between the region and Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that President Laftagareen resigned almost immediately after federal troops entered the city.<br \/>\nHe has been in office for more than seven years.<\/p>\n<p>There are also allegations that Turkish-trained Gorgor special forces and Turkish-supplied drones were used in this offensive.<\/p>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30523,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-30522","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30524,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30522\/revisions\/30524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}